We collaborate with community organizers, technologists, activists, academics, researchers, artists, libraries, archives, museums, and others around the world to center and share marginalized communities’ knowledge online.

Decolonizing the Internet

We feel strongly that this hidden crisis of “unknowing” – that we do not adequately know each other, our histories and knowledges well enough in a rich, diverse, multilingual, multicultural world – is at the core of many other crises of violence and injustice in our world. Many of us remain unseen and unheard, and this is made worse when our histories and knowledges are missing online. We also feel that the effort to change this – to re-imagine the internet, and knowledges on it – needs a multitude of us working together. So the idea for Decolonizing the Internet was born: a conference event in which “unusual” and “unlikely allies” – people who, like us, think about knowledge, the internet, or both – get to meet, talk, and scheme together to bring our different forms of knowledge onto the internet!

#VisibleWikiWomen

Wikimedians and allies around the world, in partnership with Whose Knowledge?, hosted a challenge to add more images of women to Wikipedia throughout March 2018. Together, we can make notable women, who are often literally invisible online because they’re missing an image, more visible both on Wikipedia and the broader internet.

We won’t stop here! We invite women’s and feminist organizations, Wikipedia editors, user groups, chapters, and other partners around the world to collaborate with us in this effort, by uploading images to Commons under the VisibleWikiWomen category, and using the hashtag #VisibleWikiWomen to raise awareness. Stay tuned for future #VisibileWikiWomen challenges and edit-a-thons.

Community Knowledge Sharing

Collaboration is a core value and organizing structure of Whose Knowledge?. We can only build an internet for everyone by working together with partners and allies, so we amplify, remix, and openly share all of our ideas, initiatives, and campaigns. We draw from and build on the powerful efforts of other organizations and communities working toward reimagining the internet, and we initiate projects and campaigns that are both inclusive and adaptable. Knowledge belongs to everyone, and so do our contributions to it! We are humbled and honored to share this mission and this space with extraordinary grassroots movements, communities, and campaigns that are transforming the internet in this very moment. We are activists, dreamers, and (most importantly) allies. And we seek to amplify our shared message to the world: the internet is for everyone, and should be from everyone. So we partner with and support many community movements and groups working to share their knowledge online.